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joeblau

3,944karma·1,828submissions·January 11, 2012
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The product gives users all of these features that are easily misused and misunderstood and that is the problem with Jira. It's an unfocused product.
7y ago·view thread
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There are a lot of engineers on HackerNews who have had terrible experiences with Jira (I'm one of them). You're correct, you don't have to migrate; However, if you work at a company w…
7y ago·view thread
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The video[1] does sliglty a lot better job of explaining what's going on. [1] - https://youtu.be/n_BA8tUlRLA?t=63 …
7y ago·view thread
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My Model X buying experience was great too. I just have a lot of friends who are less than happy. One of my referrals got a Model X that was supposed to be brand new and had over 100 miles on it. T…
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And now they need to deliver the cars. I have two colleagues who are waiting for their cars. Apparently the deliver process (which Elon noted on Twitter) is pretty hectic right now.
7y ago·view thread
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I've seen a lot of outrage at Google's practices over the previous 2 weeks. Has Google actually reversed course on any of their decisions?
8y ago·view thread
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I created an account last week, but I haven't used it yet.
8y ago·view thread
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Let's say the OP is correct. It doesn't matter — Whomever is using the word is using it how they want to and the recipient will understand the correct and incorrect meaning. If I was the C…
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Then buys competition, rolls competition into new code.google, then shuts down competition.
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I was going to switch to this, but they don't have integrations for my companies email. I really can't wait to try this out though.
8y ago·view thread
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This is a really tough decision and there are lots of things to weigh. 1. The equity sounds all good and well, but you need to know the intentions of the founder — would they every consider selling or…
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EV's torque curve is different than a manual. Torque on an EV is instant so it available faster than a manual, but then tapers down (Because the cars are programmed that way). If you had perfor…
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LOL, I think they named it the Killa Cycle before the owner almost killed himself. A bit of foreshadowing I must say.
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I'm with you on the Miata being a super fun car. That's a great car for a track day.
8y ago·view thread
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That is interesting. The one electric motorcycle that I heard of that was super fast was the KillaCycle[1]. I think it only had one gear though and a 0-60 mph of 0.97 seconds. The motorcycle nearly…
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My brother has an R8, Viper, and Vantage (All Manual) and I would rather drive a Tesla over all 3 of them. Manual is fun and you get the feeling of control and I love driving them, but in reality, th…
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This looks really cool. I would love to see the output of the what is visualized my MapD.
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> Over the past decade, the bay area has gotten so much worse. The cost of living has skyrocketed. To be fair, your'e talking about a period that started from the biggest stock market …
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If you want to make a better version of Slack, go all the way.
8y ago·view thread
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I had a funny now/frustrating then story where I worked with his guy who named five variables in a class a, aa, aaa, aaaa, aaaaa. I was trying to refactor his code and I had no idea what anythin…
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Freedom of speech does not apply to privately controlled products from private companies. Any one of these companies could create any arbitrary rule to regulate their platform and it's not a vio…
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Well the company is not A/B and it's not a large percentage of my portfolio. All I said is that it's the remainder of the money from cashing out of crypto, you're making a bunch o…
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It depends on what stage, but yeah it's risky.
8y ago·view thread
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I turned it into " real "(fiat) money. I expect to be sitting on the sidelines for another 2ish years. We bought a Model X and took the remainder and invested it into a pretty strong (IMO)…
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What a wild ride. I bought Ethereum almost two years ago at 12 dollars a token on Coinbase and it's changed the financial trajectory of my family. I still have high hopes for cryptocurrencies, …
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My main question is: Where are people going? It seems like there is a slight dip in usage across all social media, but I'm trying to figure out where those hours/days/weeks are being s…
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I thought this was going to be some security issue with GPS in general. This is really just aimed it DoD employees.
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> At Netflix, the milestone we celebrated was subscriber numbers I feel like this is the same trap that Facebook fell into. Celebrating subscribers is great until you top out.
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